Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-06-22

ounces Of suet and two ounces Of flour,
a little salt, and as much milk as will
give it the consistency Of common snet
buildings. Put it into a dish, or roll in
to dumplings, and bake it a fine brown.
To be served with meats.
Queen bread pudding. Cut the bread
in thin slices, lay nice, fresh butter on
them, and put a layer into 4 we'll but
tered dish, stew currants and raisins, or
lsweetmeats, over it. Then another lay
er of bread and fruit so on until the dish
is filed. Beat six eggs, with one pint
of milk, a little salt, nutmeg, and a
spoonful Of rose water; sWeeten to your
taste, and pour it over the bread. Let
it soak one OF two hours before baking.
Bake one-half hour.
Steamed pudding. Two eggs one
cup each Of sugar and sour milk, one
half teaspoonful of soda, and a little
salt, Dried currants. raisins or other
fruit, and one cup of -four. Beat the
eggs and stir in the sugar; dissolve the
soda in milk, and mix in also the soda
and salt; then thicken with flour rather
thicker than for cake, put into two.
quart pan and set in the steamer and
steam an hour and a half. ~
Beef tongue hash, Chop the heel OF
cold sboned tongue and add twice as
much cold boiled potato, with enough
mustard to season it; put a piece of but
ter as large as an English walnut into a
frying-pan shake it as it melts, so that
every part may be coated; put in the
hash and press it down. firmly, adding
enough hot water to moisten. Whenit
begins to cook press it away from the
sides OF the pan, so as to have it in oval
form, and as soon as Drowned turn out
on hot platter.
(. FOR THE FARMER.
The season has been very favorable
to the growth of young strawberry
plants, the loss in some sections being
very small.
Use no stable manure on your peach
trees. A mixture of some kind of min
eral fertilizers is better. Experiments
have shown mari to be excellent for
peach trees.
There are over sixty poultry associa-
tons in the United States that annually
give exhibitions. They have. been in
strumental in greatly advancing the
poultry interests.
A fresh egg will sink when placed in
water, and when boiled the skin will
not peel like that of an orange, as is the
case with those not strictly fresh. Stale
eggs are CLASSY and very smooth, while
fresh eggs have a peculiar roughness.
A prominent nurseryman says that
nursery practices in peach propagation
and culture have weakened the vital
power of the tree, which is unable to
resist as depressing influences of form
erly, when the trees from Seeding grew
we'll and lived to old age.
| Soon the scare-crow and stretched
wires will be sean in fields as protection
against crows, but it is a disputed ques-
tions as to wether the crow in the corn
field is an enemy or friend Though
he be sometimes destructive to the corn,
yet he destroys many insects and grubs.
Young pigs will usually commence to
eat when about three weeks old, and
the more attractive the portion put with
in their reach the quicker they will learn
to make full feed. If they can have a
little fresh milk at the start so much
the better, but by common consent skim
milk is counted sufficient to meet piggy s
notion. With milk as a starter they
soon take to slop made of mill feed,
At the present price of pure-bred
dairy COWS few farmers feel able to buy
them, unless they intend to combine
with dairying the business of fine stock
raising. The dairyman will, therefore,
find the plan of starting with selected
grade COWS and pure-bred bull oil
good pedigree best adapted to a limited
purse. A herd of three-fourths or seven.
Fights Holstein or Jersey grade COWS
can thus be built up in few years. =